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...mile stretch on Big Seatuck Creek alone, nearly 1,000,000 ducks are being raised this year. It all started when Farmer W. W. Hallock bought some of Yankee Palmer's eggs and began raising "Pekin" ducks. The ducks thrived on the sandy soil and the tidal streams. Quack Farmer Hallock soon had plenty of rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Quack Farmer Trouble | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another quack ... A Republican Henry Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Suiting his gait to his brightly-emblazoned jumper motif, Ccedrice waddled from a strategic puddle in the Square. "Of course I always rely on the impeccable taste of Lockit Company. Look here," he exclaimed, producing a clipping from a convenient quack in his ducky attire. "Harvard will be wearing purple guppies on pink underdrawers for the summer season. You bet I'll own them," he gurgled. "They give me such a feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Says Mother Goose Just Donald in Tiger P.J.'s | 5/29/1947 | See Source »

History Goes "Quack, Quack." Through the summer, in bullbat sessions and public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. . . ." A New Zealand delegate, W. J. Jordan, was similarly annoyed. He snapped: "I'm sick of listening to 'quack, quack, quack' hour after hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...West could find propaganda answers to Russian propaganda; 2) that Byrnes had been right in his insistence that the small nations be heard, and 3) that Byrnes could be just as stubborn as Molotov. The Paris Conference was boring, but it marked the turning of the Russian tide. That "quack, quack" turned out to be the voice of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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